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Isabelle Cohen is a PhD student in Economics. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Associate at Duke University, and as a Research Manager at the Centre for Microfinance in Chennai, India. Her research interests are primary in development economics and public finance, particularly around impact evaluation, governance and international development aid.

LaTeX is a widely used document creation software which can help you improve the presentation of homework, papers, academic articles and even presentations. It produces perfectly formatted equations, allows for the easy integration of multiple files, and can make creating bibliographies easy. In this workshop, we'll teach you how to get started in TeX, and provide you with templates and code that you can use going forward. Specifically, this workshop will cover:

Setting up and compiling your LaTeX document

Creating sections, a table of contents and internal references

Creating lists

Using math mode

Prior knowledge: A basic understanding of computer use will be assumed; you do not need to have ever used LaTeX before to attend this workshop.

Technology requirement: Please bring a laptop with LaTeX installed!

To install LaTeX, you'll need to install two separate softwares - 1) a distributor and 2) a writing environment. For the distributor, your options are: